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-(No Mbdel.) C. J. WAGENER.

DOOR CLOSER, OHEOK, AND HOLDER.

No. 573,497. Patented Dec. 22 1896.

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Witnesses: i

UNITED 'S nTes Piers-NT OFFICE;

enms'iixx .I. WAGENER, or meme, rizxivsrwnsex, \ASS-IGNOR 0 ONE-1mm 'lO WZLFBERT LEE SLACK, 0F sine: PLACE.

noon cnosea, QHEQKQAND -i-o-Legzn.

srnczmenmon forming ai of Letiielfs aient no. 573,497, (We December 22, 1896;

Applicationiiled July; 8 1 895.-

To all, whonvitmwy 601110431125 1 v Be itknow-n that-I, CHRISTIAN J';\Y.GEIER,

a citizen of the United Ststes,aresiding at littslinrgin the; county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania; have inrented c'ertnin new and useful Improvements in nfieml ined;

Door Closing, Checking, and Holding Device;

full, elem, and exact cleseriol ieii of-ihe insenvlon, sueh as will ennbleothers skilled in the ert to which it ppcrtains lOlllRl-IC and nsei-he Same.

My. invention relates-to in'iproi'enients in a combined (loor closing, checking, and holding ileriee. r

The objects of my invenliion are to proi iile :1 simple, cheap, and durable (leYllBu oi. the class mentioned, adapted who readily {liltziehed to the door-easing shore the door and the door itself, hy'llie use of which the door is anionm'uieelly closed and is kept. from shunming while closing, and can also be locked while standing njnr.

I {L121 aware that door-checks, broadly spcnle ing, are old, but to various door-cheeks now on thennarket many serious objections are raised. They {ire-expensive and complicated and easily get out of order, amlbesiiles they do not perform all the functions which my invention does, namely, ,elosing; ihe door, checking it while being closed in prevent sin inming, holding Lhedoor open, anclhlso locking the same while it is stnmliiig'njer.

With these objects inview myv invencion eonsist-s of the parts and eombinaiaionof parts, all as more fully hereinafter described and pm'l-ie'iilnrly claimed.

My inventionis illustrated in the :ICCOlIlPZlnying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the device at:

izaehed to door and easing; Eig. 2, a plan showing in (lotted'lines tliedoor closed and in-full lines open; Fig;'3, nee'ntrz l section through the portrait-soiled l'IOQlEhB floor.

Referring to the drew'i'iigs, A indicates a floor. of the ordinary sbyle,;and B a. easing. To the door-easing, eireetlyebove and at the inner 0r hinged side of the door, is rigidly secured a, plate a by means of screws 1). Ae teched to this plate and extending out at right; angles therefrom and over the door is a arrow-shaped head r whicl Serial No. 555,358 I inprlelfi,

mg is composed. a boitom-plnlmiwo vertical sides-1', and a ll. Wiihinihocesingis plncmlnsliilingbl j, eoniposell of a shzui am :1 head formed of two legs Ornr liysritl sincc bet e1 Lhcin. \r'ithln this i with a slot 2!,1llll0 which one of ihe lugs]; v I ClliOl'S, mill behind this log and in this grooi'e is placed coiled spin 'lhewrheel L is placed in engagement;n'iih the eurred edge H of the bracket e' on the duo --czising,"anil 1e 'COlltlil spring \vitliin'ihe ens 1g g, pressing the lugs which oarryilie \heel, keeps the la 'ter in contact \riihgsueh edge. 'lheeaph is r hehlhetweeniihe sidesol? i-he cn-singby ne us of scroirspgissed ihroiigh one of the sides z and his closely on lhe sliding block j. .Ca V M is provide-pl internally with a; slot, into which one of the lugs 1'; 'ol" the bloekj enters, 'by whichihe block isihus. cine-bled to slide, therein. N is a strong partly-coiledsprin g-lever, one end-of \v ieh is secured ,to thepla-te "as on the door-eesingnml the other end see-i (1 mike cap M ofijhe casing 5/ "on the do w by me of a staple 0 or eqnivelentfldevic. V I

'lhe'ineans thus far described ore for ant ,matienllyclosinglhe door and checking the sameas' itis l eingeloseil. l\lenns't ling tliedoor ajer 10 qinrt closed consist if a: jointed foil 31, pivoted i it hedoor, its low end passing through a bracket, as shown in Fig.1, and it-smfimr end "vided x ilzhfa adziptedto e1 1' 'i'ler nnnperture s in thehrneket c, extenchng out from the door-casing." The lower end of NM] 1) may be form'ed as a lllilldle to operate i 1 is distributedover a prolonged line A supplementary locking device consists of a rod 17', pivoted to rod 1) atone end and to a lever-arm u at-its opposite end. The lever u is in turn pivoted on a plate '1. A catch-plate w is placed on thedoor-casing by which to hold the lever u when the door is locked.

It is obvious that the door-casing bracket 0 may be provided with a series of apertures s, by whiehthe-door can he held at different positions ajar by the engagement therewith of the arrow-headed rod 12.

The operation of the closing and checking mechanism is as follows: As one end of the spring N isseeurcd-t o the door-casing and -the I opposite end to thedoor, such spring acts as a lever the-normal action of which is to close the doorand if there were no means .profided for resisting or counteracting suehxlireetactionthedoor when openedand then-let go would he ,CIQSGCi-Wllll a slam by the .full

force of the spring. To resist andarrest such action of the spring-levenand to obviate zflliS slammingiofiieet, t-hecunved hracket and the wheelareemployed. As the'cunvedbraeket, l alongits edge, is provided with hhe-depres- J sions,undulations,-or indentations overwhieh I the {wheel moves as thedooris .closing, the normally direetaetienofihe spring-lever on 3 thedoorisarrested and the forceof the spring of resist- I once, which continuing asthe spring shortens. i and its force is thereby relaxed, by the time the door is about ready-to of the spring is sosiearlyahated or exhausted T that only sullicien i: force remains to close the door gently. l have {found that these fea- I close the full force v u x i tures whenso combined cooperate most sucoessfullyin accomplishing the result thus described.

\Vhen itiis desired to hold the door wide open, the door is pushed until the grooved wheel is run into one of the stop-notches e, which may be made sufiieiently deep to hold the wheel effectually against the action of the spring-lever which normally tends to force the door shut.

Having-thus described my invention, what I claim is a l. The combination with the. door-casing and door, of the bracket 0 on the said casing provided with the stop-notch, e, the bracketcasing on the door provided with the springcontrolled wheeLadapted-to run onithe edge of said easing-bracket and to-ontersaidrnotch to hold the'door open, nndthe sprmgdever N, its casing and against theiaction of which the door is held open by the said'wheeland .noteh, substantially as descnibed.

2. Thecoinhinati on with thedoor-and doorcasing, of the bracket-con the said casing, said bracket provided with apertures, s, the jointed rod 1-), on seid cloor, said rod provided with a head adapted to enter said apertures when vthe door is partly open and to lock the door while aja-r, substantiany lsdoseribed.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature presence of two -wituesses. I

CHRISTIAN J. dvAGENER..

Witnesses:

W. L. SLACK THOMAS EWING, Jr. 

